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If you don't draw yours, I won't draw mine. A police officer, working in the small town that he lives in, focusing on family and shooting and coffee, and occasionally putting some people in jail.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

--The other night,  I watched on Netflix the Miami Vice episode "Bushido" (Season 2, episode 8). Best television that the 1980s ever brought us.




--The star PSR J1748-2446ad spins a thousand times every 1.39595482 seconds. It's outer surface moves at 24% of the speed of light. It orbits another star every 26 hours.


I want a pocket steam engine.




--My wife went to Corpus Christi last Tuesday night, and flew back Thursday morning. She grew up there, but said that it felt nothing like the town that she grew up in.


--Sports Illustrated put out a casting call for people that were at the bombing at the Boston Marathon last year. Here's their cover picture. For some reason, that puts a lump in my throat. I hope that Boston doesn't overreact to their terrorism incident like New York did to theirs.


--I've responded to two structure fires in the past month while doing my police gig. At one, I attached a 5" supply hose to the engine and got water started before digging our my PD thermal imaging camera and helping by telling firefighters where the real heat was on the roof. The other one, I just did a size-up and emptied a 15 pound dry chemical fire extinguisher onto peripherals that were burning, and got people out of the way as the apparatus arrived. In both fires, the most important thing that anyone seems to care that I did was to get initial scene pictures. 


--It's amazing the good that the American Red Cross does when there is a residential structure fire. When one A.R.C. lady arrived in the cold windy night and handed out cups of fresh hot coffee and granola bars, I restrained myself from kissing her (and her crusty male partner) on the mouth. They put the family up for the night, and provided other services. Support the American Red Cross.


--The Red River border dispute yet rages, but this time in the new light of the Bureau of Land Management making claim to private lands along the river. Here you see a news story which pivots on the definition of "accretion" and "avulsion" with regard to erosion and deposits.


--I am attending the NRA convention in Indianapolis on the weekend of the 25th of April. I purchased the tickets to go, before learning that this was also the weekend of the family reunion. The family reunion is always the Sunday following Easter. I never can remember when that is. The  First Council of Nicaea (325 AD) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the March equinox. But there can be disputes. Check out this table of possible dates for Easter. Moveable feasts make little sense to me. Pick a date, and stick to it!









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4 Comments:

At Thursday, April 17, 2014 1:23:00 PM, Anonymous Stingray said...

"I hope that Boston doesn't overreact to their terrorism incident like New York did to theirs."

Too late.

 
At Thursday, April 17, 2014 5:54:00 PM, Blogger Keith said...

Tom Selleck's mustache begs to differ. http://magnum-mania.com/Lists/Top_40_Episodes.html

 
At Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:34:00 PM, Blogger Old NFO said...

Good ones Matt, looking forward to seeing you next week!

 
At Tuesday, April 22, 2014 1:51:00 PM, Blogger Robert said...

I had two of the slightly-larger steam engines as a child. Fascinating. A word of advice: don't block the rotation of the flywheel with a kitchen match in order to let pressure lest you unintentionally make a steam catapult. Unless that's what you want, of course.

And the neutron star info lead me to bore my roomies with solar-related info. Well, I thought it was interesting...

 

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